Re: [freenet-devl] Freenet - The Next Generation : Fuzzy Searching

[Adam Langley]

On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 11:42:06PM -0700, coderman wrote:
> Now, you mention that meta data keys will contain multiple key,value pairs.
> Does this imply that these keys will be variable length, and that any
> node can read this key and determine exactly how many key/value pairs it
> contains?  And also, is each key the result of a hash operation?

Keys can already be multiple length in Freenet. And yes, the node
would have to be able to read the key,value pairs. If the keys were a
result of a hash function that kindof screws up fuzzy matching.


> You mention later that meta data keys are not encrypted.  Are they plaintext?

Yes, metadata keys would have to be (unless someone has a pretty
interresting idea)


AGL

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